RE: Well, fuck...may as well just kill ourselves!
February 12, 2015 at 4:10 pm
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2015 at 4:21 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(February 12, 2015 at 2:09 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/the-s...-on-earth/
Quote:The sun won’t die for 5 billion years, so why do we have only 1 billion years left on Earth?
Quote:The Earth is a complex system – and no model is perfect. However, it seems likely that we have no more than a billion years left for life to thrive on our planet.
If in 1.0 billion years from now, no life whatsoever from earth have managed to travel up to 0.9999 billion lights years from earth in every direction and found, made or stole at least one second home for parts of the earth's biosphere that is better than earth itself had ever been somewhere within that 4.18 octillion cubic light years of space, then I would say our planet's biosystem produced absolutely nothing of worth and therefore its end would be good riddance.
BTW, some other study suggest life on earth may have as much as 2.8 billion more years.
(February 12, 2015 at 2:17 pm)Beccs Wrote: Well, if extinction was good enough for the dinosaurs, it's good enough for the religionists, too.
Those of us and our descendants who accept science will have long since left the planet by then.
The problem is where as religionists would have gleefully consigned the scentifically minded to fury oblivion, the scientifically minded tend to be soft hearted, and would try to preserve the religionistic bacillus on humanitarian grounds.
